On May 21, 1995, regional

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

s were held in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

, to choose representatives in the regional councils of

Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to cultu ...

Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

and the

German-speaking Community of Belgium The German-speaking Community (german: links=no, Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, or DG; french: links=no, Communauté germanophone; nl, links=no, Duitstalige Gemeenschap), since 2017 also known as East Belgium (german: links=no, Ostbelgien), is ...

. It also was the first time elections were held for the Flemish and the Walloon Council. The regional elections were held on the same day as the federal election.

Flemish Parliament

Following this first direct election of the Flemish Parliament, the Christian democrats (CVP) and the Socialist Party (SP) formed a Flemish Government led by Minister-President

Luc Van den Brande Luc Van den Brande (born 13 October 1945) is a Flemish politician, member of the CD&V and was Minister-president of Flanders from 21 January 1992 until 13 July 1999. He took the initiative to create the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology ( ...

(CVP). , style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" , 1995 • 1999 → , - style="text-align:right;" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:400; text-align:left;" colspan="2" rowspan="2", Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:200; text-align:left;" rowspan="2", Main ideology ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:200; text-align:left;" rowspan="2", Main candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" rowspan="2", Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" rowspan="2", % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" rowspan="2", +/– ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50; text-align:center;" colspan="3" , Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" rowspan="2", +/– , - style="text-align:right;" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", FLA ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", BRU ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", TOT , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Christian People's Party (CVP) , style="text-align:left;" , Christian democracy , style="text-align:left;" , , 1,010,505 , 26.78 , — , 35 , 2 , 37 , — , - , , style="text-align: left" ,

Flemish Liberals and Democrats french: Libéraux et démocrates flamands ouverts , abbreviation = Open Vld , logo = , leader1_title = President , leader1_name = Egbert Lachaert , foundation = 1992 (VLD)2007 (Open Vld) , predecessor = P ...

(VLD) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

, style="text-align:left;" , , 761,262 , 20.18 , — , 26 , 1 , 27 , — , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...

(SP) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Social democracy Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote s ...

, style="text-align:left;" , , 733,703 , 19.45 , — , 25 , 1 , 26 , — , - , , style="text-align: left" ,

Flemish Block ''Vlaams Blok'' ( en, Flemish Block, or VB) was the name of a Belgian far-right and secessionist political party with an anti-immigration platform.Erk, 2005, pp. 493-502. Its ideologies embraced Flemish nationalism, calling for the independenc ...

(VB) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Flemish nationalism The Flemish Movement ( nl, Vlaamse Beweging) is an umbrella term which encompasses various political groups in the Belgian region of Flanders and, less commonly, in French Flanders. Ideologically, it encompasses groups which have sought to promo ...

, style="text-align:left;" , , 465,239 , 12.33 , — , 15 , 2 , 17 , — , - , , style="text-align:left;" , People's Union (VU) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 338,173 , 8.96 , — , 9 , 0 , 9 , — , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Living Differently (AGALEV) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Green politics Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. Wall 2010. p. 12-13. It b ...

, style="text-align:left;" , , 267,155 , 7.08 , — , 7 , 0 , 7 , — , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Union of Francophones (UF) , style="text-align:left;" , Francophone minority politics , style="text-align:left;" , , 44,053 , 1.17 , — , 1 , 0 , 1 , — , - style="border-top:2px solid gray;" , , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 , Others (parties and candidates that received less than 1% of the vote and no seats) , 153,109 , 4.06 , — , 0 , 0 , 0 , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Valid votes , 3,773,199 , 92.89 , colspan="5" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Blank and invalid votes , 288,666 , 7.11 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Totals , 4,061,865 , 100.00 , — , 118 , 6 , 124 , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="4" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , * 4,392,481 , 92.47 , — , colspan="4" , , - , colspan="11" style="text-align:left;" , Notes: FLA = Flanders, BRU = Brussels (Capital Region), TOT = total / * = The number of registered voters is not known for the constituency to elect the Brussels Members of the Flemish Council (BMFC).
Consequently, the number of registered voters and the turnout for the Flemish Council considers only the 5 provincial constituencies, excluding the constituency BMFC.

By constituency

Walloon Regional Parliament

, style="text-align:center;" colspan="9" , 1995 • 1999 → , - style="text-align:right;" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:400; text-align:left;" colspan="2", National party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:200; text-align:left;", Main ideology ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:200; text-align:left;", Main candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", +/– ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", +/– , - , , style="text-align: left" ,

(PS) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 665,986 , 35.22 , — , 30 , — , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Liberal Reformist Party (PRL) + Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 447,542 , 23.67 , — , 19 , — , - , , style="text-align: left" , Christian Social Party (PSC) , style="text-align:left;" , Christian democracy , style="text-align:left;" , , 407,741 , 21.56 , — , 16 , — , - , , style="text-align: left" , Confederated Ecologists (ECOLO) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 196,988 , 10.42 , — , 8 , — , - , , style="text-align: left" , National Front (FN) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

, style="text-align:left;" , , 96,574 , 5.11 , — , 2 , — , - , , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 , Others (parties and candidates that received less than 1% of the vote and no seats) , 71,422 , 3.78 , — , 0 , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4", Valid votes , 1,891,134 , 92.07 , colspan="3" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4", Blank and invalid votes , 162,900 , 7.93 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4", Totals , 2,054,034 , 100.00 , — , 75 , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="4", Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 2,269,135 , 90.52 , — , colspan="2",

Brussels Regional Parliament The Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, R ...

, style="text-align:center;" colspan="9" , ← 1989 • 1995 • 1999 → , - style="text-align:right;" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:400; text-align:left;" colspan="2", National party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:200; text-align:left;", Main ideology ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:200; text-align:left;", Main candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", +/– ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;", +/– , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Liberal Reformist Party (PRL) + Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 144,478 , 34.98 , 1.32 , 28 , 1 , - , , style="text-align: left" ,

(PS) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 88,370 , 21.4 , 0.55 , 17 , 1 , - , , style="text-align: left" , Christian Social Party (PSC) , style="text-align:left;" , Christian democracy , style="text-align:left;" , , 38,244 , 9.26 , 2.59 , 7 , 2 , - , , style="text-align: left" , Confederated Ecologists (ECOLO) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 37,308 , 9.03 , 1.21 , 7 , 1 , - , , style="text-align: left" , National Front (FN) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 30,803 , 7.46 , 4.18 , 6 , 4 , - , , style="text-align: left" , Christian People's Party (CVP) , style="text-align:left;" , Christian democracy , style="text-align:left;" , , 13,586 , 3.29 , 0.94 , 3 , 1 , - , , style="text-align: left" ,

(VB) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 12,507 , 3.03 , 0.97 , 2 , 1 , - , , style="text-align: left" ,

(VLD) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 11,034 , 2.67 , 0.10 , 2 , 0 , - , , style="text-align: left" ,

(SP) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 9,987 , 2.42 , 0.25 , 2 , 0 , - , , style="text-align: left" , People's Union (VU) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 5,726 , 1.39 , 0.68 , 1 , 0 , - style="border-top:2px solid gray;" , , style="text-align: left" , Living Differently (AGALEV) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , , 3,906 , 0.95 , 0.15 , 0 , 1 , - , , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 , Others (parties and candidates that received less than 1% of the vote and no seats) , 17,028 , 4.12 , — , 0 , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4", Valid votes , , , colspan="3" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4", Blank and invalid votes , , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4", Totals , , 100.00 , — , 75 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="4", Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , , , — , colspan="2",

Council of the German-speaking Community

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